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# 3887 Patriot's Pray?
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Q. Why is it that in our days few Minyanim pray for the peace and welfare of the land we are in, when it was customary to recite such a Tefila on Shabbat in the past?
A. Seforim mention different opinions regarding the Prayer for Shalo ....
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Posted 9/15/2022 10:12 PM |
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# 3886 Cover All Bases
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Q. What kind of Schach cover for a Suka is best. Hollow single bamboo poles, Badatz Schach mats, or pine branches?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that pine branches are best, since they are placed following the way they gr ....
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Posted 9/15/2022 10:11 PM |
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# 3885 No Free Ride?
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Q. I have been a Baal Tefilah for many years during Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur for free. I recently heard that it may be better to be paid something for the service, is that true?
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Posted 9/15/2022 10:09 PM |
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# 3884 The Future is Here
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Q. On question 1828 the Rov quoted Baaley Mussar and others who argue that if the Ben Sore Umore is executed on account of what he will do in the future, and if this applies to future wrongdoings it surely should hold true for mitzvos to be done i ....
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Posted 9/15/2022 10:07 PM |
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# 3883 Blow Away that Moustache?
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Q. If a Baal Tokea has a very full beard and moustache, is there a problem if hairs intercept between his lips and the shofar.
A. Piskei Teshuvos (586: 11) quotes R'A Shlezinger zt'l (2: 382) that the hairs of the moustache are indeed ....
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Posted 9/11/2022 4:16 PM |
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#3882 The Matzav of the Matzeiva
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Q. Dear Rabbi, My father Matzeive in 50 years is beginning to slowly crumble, the weather, erosion and acidic rain is working. The quality of the tombstone on the beginning was not the best, I would like to change the existing concrete cover plat ....
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Posted 9/8/2022 10:34 PM |
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# 3881 Value the Glue
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Q. Can one use for supporting the Schach of a Suka wooden beams that have been glued together? Is that considered as 'Maamid' or providing support for the Schach using something that is not fit for being covering a Suka or maybe it just avoids the b ....
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Posted 9/8/2022 10:31 PM |
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# 3880 By the Skin of your Teeth
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Q. See question above. Can one swallow the small pieces of skin that are next to the nails?
A. Rambam (Ma'acholos Assuros 4: 21) rules that human skin is the same as the flesh and is equally prohibited to be eaten. However, Rashbo (Res ....
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Posted 9/8/2022 10:29 PM |
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# 3879 Go with Tooth and Nail
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Q. Is one allowed to swallow the nails that he cuts with his teeth?
A. Poskim disagree. Doleh Umashkeh (p. 145) quotes Ben Ish Chai that one should not tear his nails with his teeth, as he may actually swallow a piece and transgress on ....
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Posted 9/8/2022 10:28 PM |
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# 3878 Make a Name for Yourself
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Q. The custom to say a posuk with one's name at end of Shemonei Esrei, how is that done for example Avraham Yisroel, it is the first letter of the first name "A" and the last letter of "L" or last letter of "M"?
or 2 pesukim?
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Posted 9/8/2022 10:26 PM |
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# 3877 A Point of Honor
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Q. Can one ask a Cohen seating close by in a Seuda to pass over some food or utensil? Would using a Cohen for that purpose constitute a violation of the mitzva of 'Vekidashto' to honor and show respect to a Cohen?
A. On question 2256 w ....
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Posted 9/8/2022 10:23 PM |
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# 3876 In a Fix?
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Q. When I stayed recently in an old cottage during Shabbos, a pipe of hot water split and started leaking heavily. There was no option to close the water intake (It was very rusty), or to summon a non - Jew.
Could one fix that pipe by ....
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Posted 9/8/2022 10:21 PM |
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# 3875 Shabbos Private Needs
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Q. Would it make a difference if that day coincides with Shabbath?
A. As mentioned on question above in principle one should avoid davening for personal needs during Shabbos and indeed therefore we don't recite Avinu Malkenu when Rosh H ....
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Posted 9/8/2022 10:20 PM |
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# 3874 Pray Tell Me
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Q. Dear Rabbi. If someone has two options; To daven Yamim Noraim in a Shul that is more Halacha minded and serious, as most of the people who daven there are Torah learners or former Yeshiva students, and the davening are said in a solemn and sober ....
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Posted 9/8/2022 10:18 PM |
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# 3873 Courting a Court
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Q. I have heard that there is an obligation to have a viable Beis Din in a town. How big does the community have to be for that obligation to take effect?
A. Indeed, there is an obligation to have a Beis Din in a Jewish town as Horav ....
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Posted 9/8/2022 10:48 AM |
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# 3872 Zooming the Blow
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Q. As I have told the Rov, I zoom almost daily a good friend who is in hospital talk to him and often learn Torah with him. Is there a point to blow the Shofar of Elul to make him feel better?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is ....
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Posted 9/1/2022 10:52 PM |
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# 3871 Don't Blow the Blow
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Q. In our small shull the Baal Tokea who blows Shofar during Elul was missing one morning. Only another attendant new how to blow Shofar, but he was in the middle of saying the Shema. He actually did blow the Shofar then, was that correct?
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Posted 9/1/2022 10:50 PM |
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# 3870 A Fast Break?
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Q. One who does not wear Rabbenu Tam's Tefilin by mistake dropped his friend's Rabbenu Tam's Tefilin. Does he have to fast?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that he does, since those Tefilin carry the same name's of Hashem ....
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Posted 9/1/2022 10:47 PM |
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# 3869 Brand New Brand?
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Q. I was recently cleaning up the house and found two Pushka boxes that the label has come off and it is not discernible at all what the original Tzedaka was. What do I do with this money?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is t ....
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Posted 9/1/2022 10:46 PM |
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# 3868 Melt Away Shailah
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Q. See question above. Can one use solid cream cheese for a coffee that will melt, when placed in Keli Shelishi?
A. As far as the Bishul prohibition is concerned regarding congealed fat, butter or margarine, Poskim disagree if they are ....
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Posted 9/1/2022 10:44 PM |
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